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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to…
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with…
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such…
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may…
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,…
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as…
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating…
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,…
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than…
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. — Mark Twain
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A jug fills drop by drop. — Gautama Buddha
Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the… — Glenn Gould
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed… — Roger McGuinn
...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !... — John Sebastian
I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of… — Andrew Jackson
People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring… — Sarah Hall
In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle-… — Edward Lear
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a… — Charles Kuralt
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree....… — Pietro Aretino

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